Diana Fu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diana Fu |
| PRENOMES | Diana |
| SOBRENOME | Fu |
| ASSINATURA | FU D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8819-3641 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ethnography and Ethnographic Sensibility in Political Science
In an era when artificial intelligence and chatbots make it enticing to interface with an entirely digital field site, immersive ethnographic practices and an ethnographic sensibility remain indispensable. Honing an ethnographic sensibility increases the fidelity of our theories to the real world; improves researchers’ sensitivity to the ethical, emotional, and moral stakes of research; and sparks creativity. As more researchers in political scie…
Exposing State Repression
One of the major issues in international development is how disadvantaged populations mobilize in response to state repression. Whether in the Black Lives Movement or in the 2011 Arab Spring, digital exposures of police abuse have spurred social movements when people took to social media to expose it. Yet, in authoritarian regimes, citizens cannot easily initiate or participate in social movements. In such cases, how do victims of police violence…
Sorting citizens
China's social credit system can be examined as a governance tool which sorts citizenship behaviors into trustworthy and untrustworthy categories as part of the regime's long‐standing effort to cultivate a loyal citizenry. Based on a data set comprised of central‐level official documents, national model citizen lists, and media reports, this study qualitatively examines how the Chinese state constructs “good” and “bad” citizen ideal types. Contra…
The Indoctrination Dimension of Repression
Public confessions are repression spectacles that have appeared in different regimes and historical periods. This study theorizes an indoctrination dimension of repression—the turning of punishment into a control tool that displays the regime’s apparent transformative power. Whereas repression is often defined by its inhibiting dimension, this study argues that authorities stage repressive spectacles not only to deter further dissent but also as …
Governing “Untrustworthy” Civil Society in China
The Chinese Party-state’s repression of politically sensitive social organizations is well-known. Less known, however, is how the central state has governed a broader range of social organizations that have violated laws or regulations and are hence considered “untrustworthy” in the context of the social credit system. Analyzing over 22,000 entries of social organizations on the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ National Social Organization Credit Infor…
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics
How should we study contentious politics in an era rife with new forms of contention, both in the United States and abroad? The introduction to this special issue draws attention to one particularly crucial methodological tool in the study of contention: political ethnography. It showcases the ways in which ethnographic approaches can contribute to the study of contentious politics. Specifically, it argues that “what,” “how,” and “why” questions …
Performing Authoritarian Citizenship
How should we study citizenship in authoritarian regimes? We propose studying how citizenship is performed using the “public transcript”—communication between ordinary citizens and political authorities. The stakes of these strategic communications allow us to observe the roles citizens play to elicit assistance from authoritarian elites. We use this technique to study citizenship in contemporary China, analyzing evidence from an original databas…
Flash
Flash Diana Fuss (bio) Some call it flash. Others the short short story, or the very short story, or the really short story. Noticeably briefer than conventional short stories, which typically range between 3,000 to 10,000 words in length, diminutive stories have a brand name problem: has there ever been a literary genre with so many names? Nanofiction and minute fiction, small fiction and paragraph fiction, skinny fiction and hybrid fiction, bit…
Mobilizing without the Masses
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobi…
Grassroots Participation and Repression under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping
This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Party-state has launched political campaigns against a range of grassroots activists and organizations. This entails a shift in state repression from fragmentation to consolidation, and it has resulted in less room for contentious participation. However, institutionalized political participation—activities by or…
Jennifer Hsu, State of Exchange
Fragmented control
How does an authoritarian state govern contentious civil society and what are the effects on grassroots mobilization? This article theorizes the relationship between repression and mobilization by examining the case of informal labor organizations in South China that threaten social stability. Findings based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside these organizations suggest that the central state's mandate to maintain social stability is r…
Disguised Collective Action in China
How does civil society mobilize citizens in an authoritarian state that forbids organizations from coordinating collective contention? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in underground labor organizations in China, this article theorizes a tactical innovation—disguised collective action—that lowers the cost of organizing contention under repression. Instead of forming organizations to facilitate collective action, organizations enable citizens to …
A Cage of Voices
I have a stomach full of words, but I just can’t say them” is a statement often uttered by migrant women in contemporary China. Using this as a point of entry, this article explores the paradoxical role that the Dagongmei’s Home, a Beijing women’s organization that promotes the rights and interests of female migrants, plays in producing identities for its members and in channeling their voices into the public arena. The Dagongmei’s Home is both a…
Corpse Poem
Interior Chambers
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 1998
Look Who's Talking, or If Looks Could Kill
Pink Freud
Interior Colonies
$ I begin this discussion of identification with two claims: first, that identification has a history-a colonial history; and second, that this colonial history poses serious challenges for contemporary recuperations of a politics of identification. I do not mean to imply that identification, a concept that receives its fullest elaboration in the discourse of psychoanalysis, cannot be successfully mobilized for a radical politics. I mean only to …
Inside/Out
Lesbians and gays have gone from coming out, to acting up, to outing, meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributor…
Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
Essentially Speaking
In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of gay identity
Reading Like a Feminist
Research Article| July 01 1989 Reading Like a Feminist Diana Fuss Diana Fuss Diana Fuss is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Essentially Speaking (New York: Routledge, 1989) and editor of a book on gay and lesbian theory (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 1990). She is currently at work on a book entitled tentatively "The Third Sex." Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1…
Disguised Collective Action in China
How does civil society mobilize citizens in an authoritarian state that forbids organizations from coordinating collective contention? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in underground labor organizations in China, this article theorizes a tactical innovation—disguised collective action—that lowers the cost of organizing contention under repression. Instead of forming organizations to facilitate collective action, organizations enable citizens to …
Grassroots Participation and Repression under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping
This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Party-state has launched political campaigns against a range of grassroots activists and organizations. This entails a shift in state repression from fragmentation to consolidation, and it has resulted in less room for contentious participation. However, institutionalized political participation—activities by or…
Interior Colonies
$ I begin this discussion of identification with two claims: first, that identification has a history-a colonial history; and second, that this colonial history poses serious challenges for contemporary recuperations of a politics of identification. I do not mean to imply that identification, a concept that receives its fullest elaboration in the discourse of psychoanalysis, cannot be successfully mobilized for a radical politics. I mean only to …
Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics
How should we study contentious politics in an era rife with new forms of contention, both in the United States and abroad? The introduction to this special issue draws attention to one particularly crucial methodological tool in the study of contention: political ethnography. It showcases the ways in which ethnographic approaches can contribute to the study of contentious politics. Specifically, it argues that “what,” “how,” and “why” questions …
Fragmented control
How does an authoritarian state govern contentious civil society and what are the effects on grassroots mobilization? This article theorizes the relationship between repression and mobilization by examining the case of informal labor organizations in South China that threaten social stability. Findings based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside these organizations suggest that the central state's mandate to maintain social stability is r…
Performing Authoritarian Citizenship
How should we study citizenship in authoritarian regimes? We propose studying how citizenship is performed using the “public transcript”—communication between ordinary citizens and political authorities. The stakes of these strategic communications allow us to observe the roles citizens play to elicit assistance from authoritarian elites. We use this technique to study citizenship in contemporary China, analyzing evidence from an original databas…
A Cage of Voices
I have a stomach full of words, but I just can’t say them” is a statement often uttered by migrant women in contemporary China. Using this as a point of entry, this article explores the paradoxical role that the Dagongmei’s Home, a Beijing women’s organization that promotes the rights and interests of female migrants, plays in producing identities for its members and in channeling their voices into the public arena. The Dagongmei’s Home is both a…
Sorting citizens
China's social credit system can be examined as a governance tool which sorts citizenship behaviors into trustworthy and untrustworthy categories as part of the regime's long‐standing effort to cultivate a loyal citizenry. Based on a data set comprised of central‐level official documents, national model citizen lists, and media reports, this study qualitatively examines how the Chinese state constructs “good” and “bad” citizen ideal types. Contra…
Corpse Poem
Inside/Out
Lesbians and gays have gone from coming out, to acting up, to outing, meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributor…
Governing “Untrustworthy” Civil Society in China
The Chinese Party-state’s repression of politically sensitive social organizations is well-known. Less known, however, is how the central state has governed a broader range of social organizations that have violated laws or regulations and are hence considered “untrustworthy” in the context of the social credit system. Analyzing over 22,000 entries of social organizations on the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ National Social Organization Credit Infor…
Pink Freud
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China
Interior Chambers
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 1998
Essentially Speaking
In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of gay identity
Reading Like a Feminist
Research Article| July 01 1989 Reading Like a Feminist Diana Fuss Diana Fuss Diana Fuss is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Essentially Speaking (New York: Routledge, 1989) and editor of a book on gay and lesbian theory (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 1990). She is currently at work on a book entitled tentatively "The Third Sex." Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1…
Reading Like a Feminist
Research Article| July 01 1989 Reading Like a Feminist Diana Fuss Diana Fuss Diana Fuss is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Essentially Speaking (New York: Routledge, 1989) and editor of a book on gay and lesbian theory (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 1990). She is currently at work on a book entitled tentatively "The Third Sex." Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1…
Essentially Speaking
In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of gay identity
Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look
Inside/Out
Lesbians and gays have gone from coming out, to acting up, to outing, meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributor…
Interior Colonies
$ I begin this discussion of identification with two claims: first, that identification has a history-a colonial history; and second, that this colonial history poses serious challenges for contemporary recuperations of a politics of identification. I do not mean to imply that identification, a concept that receives its fullest elaboration in the discourse of psychoanalysis, cannot be successfully mobilized for a radical politics. I mean only to …
Pink Freud
Look Who's Talking, or If Looks Could Kill
Interior Chambers
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 1998
Corpse Poem
A Cage of Voices
I have a stomach full of words, but I just can’t say them” is a statement often uttered by migrant women in contemporary China. Using this as a point of entry, this article explores the paradoxical role that the Dagongmei’s Home, a Beijing women’s organization that promotes the rights and interests of female migrants, plays in producing identities for its members and in channeling their voices into the public arena. The Dagongmei’s Home is both a…
Mobilizing without the Masses
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobi…
Grassroots Participation and Repression under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping
This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Party-state has launched political campaigns against a range of grassroots activists and organizations. This entails a shift in state repression from fragmentation to consolidation, and it has resulted in less room for contentious participation. However, institutionalized political participation—activities by or…
Jennifer Hsu, State of Exchange
Fragmented control
How does an authoritarian state govern contentious civil society and what are the effects on grassroots mobilization? This article theorizes the relationship between repression and mobilization by examining the case of informal labor organizations in South China that threaten social stability. Findings based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside these organizations suggest that the central state's mandate to maintain social stability is r…
Disguised Collective Action in China
How does civil society mobilize citizens in an authoritarian state that forbids organizations from coordinating collective contention? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in underground labor organizations in China, this article theorizes a tactical innovation—disguised collective action—that lowers the cost of organizing contention under repression. Instead of forming organizations to facilitate collective action, organizations enable citizens to …
Performing Authoritarian Citizenship
How should we study citizenship in authoritarian regimes? We propose studying how citizenship is performed using the “public transcript”—communication between ordinary citizens and political authorities. The stakes of these strategic communications allow us to observe the roles citizens play to elicit assistance from authoritarian elites. We use this technique to study citizenship in contemporary China, analyzing evidence from an original databas…
Flash
Flash Diana Fuss (bio) Some call it flash. Others the short short story, or the very short story, or the really short story. Noticeably briefer than conventional short stories, which typically range between 3,000 to 10,000 words in length, diminutive stories have a brand name problem: has there ever been a literary genre with so many names? Nanofiction and minute fiction, small fiction and paragraph fiction, skinny fiction and hybrid fiction, bit…
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics
How should we study contentious politics in an era rife with new forms of contention, both in the United States and abroad? The introduction to this special issue draws attention to one particularly crucial methodological tool in the study of contention: political ethnography. It showcases the ways in which ethnographic approaches can contribute to the study of contentious politics. Specifically, it argues that “what,” “how,” and “why” questions …
Governing “Untrustworthy” Civil Society in China
The Chinese Party-state’s repression of politically sensitive social organizations is well-known. Less known, however, is how the central state has governed a broader range of social organizations that have violated laws or regulations and are hence considered “untrustworthy” in the context of the social credit system. Analyzing over 22,000 entries of social organizations on the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ National Social Organization Credit Infor…
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China
The Indoctrination Dimension of Repression
Public confessions are repression spectacles that have appeared in different regimes and historical periods. This study theorizes an indoctrination dimension of repression—the turning of punishment into a control tool that displays the regime’s apparent transformative power. Whereas repression is often defined by its inhibiting dimension, this study argues that authorities stage repressive spectacles not only to deter further dissent but also as …
Exposing State Repression
One of the major issues in international development is how disadvantaged populations mobilize in response to state repression. Whether in the Black Lives Movement or in the 2011 Arab Spring, digital exposures of police abuse have spurred social movements when people took to social media to expose it. Yet, in authoritarian regimes, citizens cannot easily initiate or participate in social movements. In such cases, how do victims of police violence…
Sorting citizens
China's social credit system can be examined as a governance tool which sorts citizenship behaviors into trustworthy and untrustworthy categories as part of the regime's long‐standing effort to cultivate a loyal citizenry. Based on a data set comprised of central‐level official documents, national model citizen lists, and media reports, this study qualitatively examines how the Chinese state constructs “good” and “bad” citizen ideal types. Contra…
Ethnography and Ethnographic Sensibility in Political Science
In an era when artificial intelligence and chatbots make it enticing to interface with an entirely digital field site, immersive ethnographic practices and an ethnographic sensibility remain indispensable. Honing an ethnographic sensibility increases the fidelity of our theories to the real world; improves researchers’ sensitivity to the ethical, emotional, and moral stakes of research; and sparks creativity. As more researchers in political scie…
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